Posted on 05/12/2017 1:53:18 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
A North Carolina high school has confiscated pre-ordered yearbooks after school officials and district administrators deemed a student's "build that wall" senior quote "inappropriate."
Richmond Early College High School allowed graduating students to put a quote of their choice under their yearbook picture. One student chose their senior quote to be "Build that wall," crediting Donald Trump for the statement.
Only after the yearbook was published and distributed to students did Principal Tonya Waddell deem several senior quotes inappropriate, including Trump's oft-repeated campaign promise to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. At that point, 22 yearbooks had been pre-ordered, and only a handful of those had been distributed to students.
The yearbooks that were handed out were confiscated that same morning.
The Richmond County school district posted a statement on Facebook on Tuesday saying it regrets the incident and "will not tolerate inappropriate conduct toward any of our students."
The use of the controversial Trump quote and the school's subsequent decision to confiscate the yearbooks sparked a backlash from the community. Some people criticized the student on social media for using the quote, while others said students should be able to put whatever quotes they want under their names.
According to Richmond County school district spokeswoman Ashley-Michelle Thublin, none of the students were disciplined for their quotes.
Students who already paid $30 to $39 for their 2017 yearbooks will be reimbursed.
Well, how generous of them.
And once again, a three-named female insane liberal thug makes the call for the whole student body? They need to tar & feather the whole damn bunch.
Wasn’t it supposed to be a three word quote?
Build The Wall
Deport Them All
Make America Great
Lock Her Up
Drain The Swamp
Bring Back Jobs
Trump’s the King of slogans.
No kidding. What gives them the right to steal something that has been paid for and distributed, anyway?!
Someone should charge the Commie school officials with robbery or extortion.
bet she would have let ‘Black Lives Matter’ slide right by
No more Free Speech!!
Those of this generation of fail to see what these idiots are doing to them are just screwed. Fortunately, every student who writes “Build that wall” gives hope...
The school needs to be sued.
Public education: where free speech goes to die.
The silver lining is, given the school district and three-named Gorgon administratrices, it looks like some black kid must have posted that quote. Kudos!
No freedom of thought there.
The school needs to be sued.
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The School District admin needs to be dragged out of office and replaced with folks who’ll crush this kind of crap in the schools in the district.
The rot starts at the top.
They paid for a published book and it was seized? Sounds to me like great suit material. Hopefully they sue personally and not incur another cost for the school board.
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If I were the kid who picked that slogan and forced every yearbook to be confiscated I WOULD BE SO PROUD OF MYSELF! I’m not even being sarcastic. This will make that student a LEGEND forever in that school.
more about her CV.http://yourdailyjournal.com/news/17548/tonya-waddell-off-to-great-start-as-richmond-early-college-principal
“If I were the kid who picked that slogan and forced every yearbook to be confiscated I WOULD BE SO PROUD OF MYSELF! I’m not even being sarcastic. This will make that student a LEGEND forever in that school.”
LOL!
So true!
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